[Stoppi] has taken on a fascinating project involving the interference of thin layers ... leads to interference patterns that depend on the layer’s thickness and the wavelength of the light.

These structural colors form due to a phenomenon known as thin-layer interference between clay and graphite, which are the two main components of pencil lead," explains Prof. Moriwaki ...

Thin-layer chromatography (TLC) was widely used in the 1960s and 1970s for pesticide residue analysis, but only to a limited extent since gas–liquid chromatography (GLC) and high performance liquid ...